at the same time, we have a watch on the pearl river and the west river river.earl is supposed to crest sometime late sunday into monday at perhaps record heights. and so we are watching that entire area. so we are asking a much wider area to be watchful of the pearl and the west pearl. but at this moment, our specific concern is between locks 1 and 2 on the pearl river diversionnary canal. >> suzanne, can you explain to some of us land lovers, what a lock does? >> a lock allows a boat to glo go from different level fles a river or canal from one to the other. just as for instance, the most famous would be, of course, the panama canal where you enter and go through a system of locks, you connect water bodies that are of different levels. >> suzanne -- >> this allows for boat traffic or commercial traffic to go through there. at one time this was a commercial -- a commercial waterway. >> i didn't mean to put you on the spot, suzanne, but you explained that extraordinary well. i wish you all all of the resident of your parish good luck. >> thank you. >> the presid

in this river are fish. we will take the right hand over our left and use our thumbs like fish fins and let your fish swim through the water it takes a big dive. >> and growing next to the river are a bed of flowers. opening one hand onfinger at a time watching the flower petal blossoms. we will take our other hand and turn it into a butterifiy much the butter fly will fly, fly, fly the and land on the flour and watch it fly away. drinking can a deer. take your thumb and the outside a n antlers. the deer hears a noise and in the distance is a hunter with a low and arrow. he sees that deer and aims for it. see your target and takes a shot and he misses and the deer escapes. the hunter's frustrated. i can't believe i missed that. he decides that hunting deer is not a night idea next time he will aim for an apple. thank you participating, you can sit down. give yourself a clap. those are very basic hand movements we use to tell a story. so, the next story we will show you is going to take place in this forest t

kharaghani: the los angeles river is approximately 51 miles. concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping, people are putting a lot of pollutants on the street and the streets are the openings to our stormwater sewer system. in an average year, 4,000 to 5,000 tons of trash ends up in long beach. man: we've created a system to deal with flooding but inadvertently created a pathway for pollution to get into our waterways. narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon t

narrator: but more than rivers were clogged here.hanghai had to use all its muscle to deal with other kinds of congestion, too. xiang ( translated ): dramatic changes have taken place in shanghai in the last few years. however, little or nhing was done about urban services in shanghai. this led to a number of problems. for example, the streets became choked with traffic, there was air pollution and a growing shortage of housing. the size of metropolitan shanghai actually is almost exactly the same size as metropolitan atlanta. the difference in population again-- metropolitan atlanta is about four million people and metropolitan shanghai 17 million people. the population of... of the central city of atlanta is about 350,000. in shanghai, the central city this about ten milon people. so it's intensely occupied lan narrator:the best pd was farther down ithe delta. now the metropolis is overtaking some of china's most fertile soil. the area is called pudong, and it's separated from the rest of shanghai by a natural barrier. the mighty c

and if the water pushed us right into the middle of the river and we started floating down river. >>ruck is just approaching the 10 freeway southbound over the river. >> jose and mark are just beginning their wild ride. up ahead, bridges, overpasses and then a clear shot out to the pacific ocean. but first, a more immediate fear -- the truck hits a bridge abutment, breaks free, but nearly rolls over. mark is afraid the mixer might tip and crush them. he wants to jump off and take his chances in the raging river. >> i was ready to jump at any time in case the truck would roll over. i didn't want to be underneath it. >> but jose nunez wants to stay put. the men agree to hang on and take their chances on the moving mixer. they fear the worst. >> jose was really concerned about something happening serious. because all he talked about was his wife and kids. >> then the truck floats under a second bridge, but doesn't come out on the other side. it hits another abutment. and this time for the moment, it's stuck. it turns out to be a lucky break. a rescue helicopter chasing the cement truck

no one knows this river better than you. you've seen the river rise before.hat are you expecting tonight? >> we're expecting to see it tomorrow, it's supposed to go to about 19.5. that's their prediction right now. everybody's kind of got their eye on it and they're a little skeptical. they're watching the gauges down here on the rise. 19.5 is going to flood quite a few areas down here. especially like the upper end of the pearl starting from 59 back this way. some of the areas that were affected through isaac were some of the subdivisions like indian village, quail ridge. they were caught with some storm surge. this river is going to get back in those areas, so there is some concern. we have a subdivision over here called magnolia forest. it's going to be affected, also. it's a guessing game right now. they're saying 19.5. i hope they're right. >> let's take a look again. we're talking about three additional feet of water before all is said and done out here on the pearl river. and i want to show you what's been happening out here. all day, this has been the

a nearby river is also very high right now.nd the reason for it is because of all the rainfall over the last several days from hurricane isaac. that storm now passed off, but certainly we are still feeling the effects here. all of that water has to go somewhere. gone down into these rivers, tributaries, and it's all flowing out. and now we're seeing these communities that could be flooded. >> and as we talk about what's happening there, what about the evacuations? we're talking about a couple thousand people. where are they going, and how long might they have to be out of their homes? >> reporter: you find some people who are staying with friends, relatives, some i'm sure are going to nearby shelters. this is the sort of thing where we're talking about thousands of people who have to have some sort of plan to leave their home behind and hope they can return to the home. and right now, i should say that river -- nothing has changed. the river is still stable, but there's concern that things could change. >> a lot of concern ther

all of the water is still coming down this pearl river, shoots off the peace river. the main river. all of the water is coming down, going off to the pearl river. and we just have to watch this water as it continues to flow out toward the gulf. and that's the thing. monday should be the day we know, you know, what happens with this particular river. then i think people in the coming days will be able to return home optimistically. >> why is this happening now given that the storm hit days ago? >> reporter: sure. well, you know, when you think about the tributary system, you have all of this rainfall that accumulated over an extended amount of time from isaac. it's got to go somewhere. it's going down the rivers, and it's making the rivers swollen. we're seeing above flood stage in several different places. so not surprising that we're dealing with river situations after such a big rain event. >> george howell, appreciate that. stay safe getting there, as well. >>> to politics now and the countdown to the democratic national convention. president obama keeping busy on the campaign tr

so their search led them to the nearby schuylkill river. philadelphia developed technologies to pump water from the river into the city. these technologies established engineering concepts that are still the basis for our water systems today. europeans flocked here. it was a destination point to see the new world technology. when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go t

it's all focused on the main stem rivers. the main stem rivers are only about 200 miles of habitat. the majority osalmon habitat in that region is in the headwaters. >> we have the drilling, we have site reconnaissance. >> and that concerns me. a lot of the groundwater models rely on information collected from these drill cores. so, you know, what the.... >> narrator: woody was also concerned about how the data was released. >> and there have been a number of requests for the drill log information. do you know if that information will be made available? >> well, all the drill hole logs are included ithe ebd. and the ebis publicly available. >> that information is not easily used because it's in a format that is very difficult for scientists to look at. science is only science when it's passed a jury of its peers. the data that has been collected at pebble, you couldn't really call that science at this point. because it's not reproducible. you can barely figure out what's been done. the information they provided in their environmental baseline document is locked. you can't analyze th

he began last night at the river's source in colorado and tonight jim follows the river and the storyto kansas. >> i'd say the drought's got to be the worst. it affects everything. >> reporter: this fishing hole looked quite different when randy hazlett stocked it with bass, last may. >> this spring i put a load in. >> reporter: you put fish in at the end of the ramp this spring and they went right into the water? >> yes, i did. it's dropped that much this year. >> reporter: that much is a drop of four feet in four months. hazlett is a corn and soybean farmer in lakin, kansas. he depends on water diverted from the arkansas river to supply and irrigate 2,000 acres. how's a farmer supposed to do his business when you're down that much water? >> it makes it much harder. it costs a lot more money to pump the water from the ground and we just lose our water. we don't have the water to use. >> reporter: here in kansas, they call it the arkansas river. never mind the pronunciation, this year they can't call this a river at all. where are we walking right now? >> you're in the bed of the arka

and callia is in the river. krishna is swimming through the dark waters and sees the ball is in the tail of the serpant demon. he sees the ball and the demon is sleeping. so guess what he does? he picks up the tail and slowly pulls it and then -- he wakes him up. okay. kruk na [music] [applause] >> so was that at all like a movie? >> was it a story? >> yeah. you can tell stories with dance. did you know that? if i was going to tell you about something else, this dance evolved in the courts where kings and queens enjoyed the dance. she will tell you a little about this right now. i will be back. >> all right. our next scene is going to move us from story telling that took place during the hindu temples and india into the mogel time in india this come from hindu and western cultures brought together. when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they broug

they expect the water to rise here in the next 24 hours in pearl river, a town called pearl river. that will be where it crests and within the next 48 hours we could very well see three feet of water where i'm standing right now. >> they're not at all out of the woods. >> reporter: not at all. one other thing. when the storm came through, when isaac came through, a lot of homes took water. i'm told that what we will see here, if this rises another three feet -- i say "if." when it rises another three feet it won't be nearly what they saw when the storm came through. as long as those two locks hold this community should be as okay as it can be. those homes that took water will likely take water again but nothing like it could be if those two locks fail. >> george howell, thanks so much in slidell, louisiana. >>> a quarter million homes and businesses in louisiana and mississippi still don't have power. five days after isaac hit. president obama will be visiting the gulf coast monday before he heads to charlotte for the democratic national convention. >>> republican presidential nomi

and so for the past decade, the city has embarked on a program to clean up the river. now, with 1,800 miles of sewer system, three sewage plants and combined sewer overflows, it took a number of years to figure out what would be the solution. we are facing a crisis in infrastructure. bethea: a huge change came about when mayor shirley franklin became the mayor of atlanta. we're having to choose how to spend our money. i named myself "the sewer mayor," and i wear that title very proudly, because, without wastewater infrastructure and drinking water infrastructure, the economy will stop. we did a major outreach. we trained an outreach team, who went to every community meeting, to educate people on how bad the crisis was. not only did i tell people that we'd have to raise rates, i told them we'd have to tear up the city to repair this infrastructure. man: you can't simply say, "i won't use any water, it's too expensive." we have about 25% of our population that's at or below the poverty line, so you have to look at rate structures that are tiered so the people can pay the

we've had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickname is the killer kearn. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickimer, decided to try rafting for the first time. with a group of friends, two rafts and two guides, they head for the river. when they get there, mike wonders if they have made a mistake. >> the river was flowing at a high rate of speed. it was at a very high level but i didn't really know what to compare it with. >> despite the boiling current, the group launches their boats. within moments, everything goes wrong. >> we saw that tree coming right in front of us and then we hit it head-on. there was nothing that could be done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast, that i don't remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on to that tree. >> grateful to be alive, mike clambers into the tree and considers his options. >> the current was so strong that i couldn't even move a couple of yards upstream. it was very dangerous and i just stayed where

was when i got a report that a man had fallen into the napa river. two men, brother in-laws, sitting on a railroad bridge above the river. he was in a strong suit swimmer. the men fell off the bridge was carried into -- carried westward on the napa river. the other man whose brother-in- law lost sight of him and then called for help. overnight search crews did find what they believed were the

and they go to the river and what do they see? an evil demon is polluting the river. callia. and they can't get water because it's killing the cows and the people. so, they go to krishna and say, please, do something about this this is not good. he says, he thinks about it and says, okay. he takes his friends to the river to play. they play ball. they play with the ball and then by accident or may be not, the ball goes in the -- river. and callia is in the river. krishna is swimming through the dark waters and sees the ball is in the tail of the serpant demon. he sees the ball and the demon is sleeping. so guess what he does? he picks up the tail and slowly pulls it and then -- he wakes him up. okay. kruk na [music] [applause] >> so was that at all like a movie? >> was it a story? >> yeah. you can tell stories with dance. did you know that? if i was going to tell you about something else, this dance evolved in the courts where kings and queens enjoyed the dance. she will tell you a little about this right now. i will be back. >> all right. our next scene is going to move us f

another river trip. this one in europe.enter piece of all of this. >> once you see the pictures you will want to leave tomorrow on this cruise. it is a viking. 190 passenger ship. nothing like the ones you see in the caribbean. you will see all of the great cities, places like amsterdam, vienna. it is important to remember about a cruise like this is that the port cities are very historic. on a river cruise you pull right in and hop off the ship and be able to tour around all you want. if you were on a walking tour or bus tour you would be looking for parking. the cruise ship acts as your floating hotel. this one is another 14-day one. a longer one but you will see everything. it is amazing. it starts about $3,300. that includes all your meals, beer and wine with dinner and all of the great excursions. >> they give you enough time to get off and tour. please don't forget to get back on the boat. don't lose track of time. >> that might mess up the trip a little. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> you can get more details ab

he was last seen labor day weekend while being on the river -- while tubing on the river with friendshis body was found a week later about two miles downstream from where he disappeared. >>> a school damaged by a fire last week will open again tomorrow. according to beachwood schools's facebook page, the power has been turned back on. yesterday teachers and parents helped move some of the debris left over from that fire. a third grade classroom was destroyed and administrative offices badly damaged. investigators say they believe it started in the school's kitchen and was likely sparked by a damaged electrical cord. >>> in election news, republican presidential nominee mitt romney is in colorado today ahead of what is expected to be a tough week of campaigning for both him and president obama. tomorrow romney heads to california for a fund-raiser in orange county and it will be his first stop here since announcing paul ryan as his running mate. tomorrow president obama will hold a rally in ohio. that's going to be followed by a fund-raiser in new york on tuesday and then a two-city vi

an enormous amount of river down in pearl river county and caused a lot of the flooding. we've got a lot of places in the county that we've never had before. >> in terms of that dam, john zarrella was saying it seems the need to kind of open up a hole in it, that's passed, yes? >> what we're going to do, anderson, we've got engineers from the corps of engineer, department of environmental quality, and department of transportation, and equipment from the national guard that are working to bring the water down to a level that we can control. we want to continue to bring the water level down, and we will let it out a little at a time so we don't raise the tangible water level, because we are just as concerned about the few families in mississippi downstream as we are the people in the pearl river area. we'll do everything we can to protect the citizens. >> do you have the personnel you need? >> absolutely. we've got the personnel. we're working 24/7 to make sure we continue to do that. the plan the government put in place seems to be working. we're confident that it will. it

river otter.o that is not even funny. sure enough, there they were. >> right there. on the big log. >> that is an otter? >> yeah. >> i can't believe we are seeing it. >> wow. >> very rare. >> very lucky to see that. >> jack, they are moving. >> it is something that even up there with the pink river dolphin may be higher than that as far as how rare it is. >> that has to be so special to know that endangered animal is here. >> can you imagine seeing river otters and pink dolphins in the same day? >> no. >> there are only 100-200 in the world. >> they were already killed for the skin. >> yeah. >> they were all hunted. there are just very few left. >> look way down there and there is a pink river dolphin between the giant river otter. to see a giant river oter and a pink dolphin on that day is like winning the lottery. i don't know what the chances are, 1 in 1 million. i don't know. after that we decided to call it a day. on the way victor spotted something floating in front of us. >> what is it? oh,

>> you're in the arkansas river. >> reporter: it hasn't been this bad in kansas in 65 years. 200 miles of the arkansas river bed look like this. >> if we're doing a one to ten, one being the best, ten being the worst drought condition you could imagine, what's this part of kansas right now? >> 12, probably. it's bad. >> reporter: less than seven inches of rain has fallen here all year. a third of what they get in a normal year. the flat terrain in kansas provides few places for large amounts of water to collect. so farmers rely on gates like this one to divert water from the arkansas river to their fields. >> it's plenty dry. >> reporter: no water to divert? >> not a drop. >> reporter: he can't grow feed for his cows. he's got to buy it at the cost of $1,000 a week. his corn profits have been cut in half. >> drop them down. >> reporter: now he may have to drill a new water well. >> how much will that cost? >> we're looking at $60,000, $70,000 to redrill. >> reporter: in this part of kansas it's not just the arkansas

fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar. the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fall into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building on the bogus front plane more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now but last the voice of the voters of color jay might start being heard. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga back to law. meaning that the mighty vogue is treated with the respect it deserves. wealthy british style holds that it's not on. the. markets why not scan

countless brooks and rivers flow into the valley and the orange river, the biggest river in southernfrica. the main region supplied by the reservoir is gauteng province, more than 600 kilometers away. it doesn't rain much in johannesburg, so south africa buys water from the lesotho highlands. inflow and outflow are regulated in the control centre according to stringent water management principles. >> you don't have to dry the rivers because of the ecosystem downstream of the dam. there a communities downstream of the dam, they have projects. they use the water for construction of bricks and so you actually don't have to close completely the water. >> lieketseng mothibi also works for the company that operates the katse dam. water is one of lesotho's most important exports and a lucrative one too. >> the main benefits could be those ones that we are generating electricity for the whole nation before this water being transferred to south africa. and again there are some royalties that come to lesotho as a result of water transferred water to gauteng province south africa. lesotho would

g of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the lon

wounded warriors are finding a way to heal on the potomac river.ry kiesch introduces us to the river warriors. ♪ >> one day driving home from work i stopped by the recruiter and ended up joining as an army medic. >> i got hit, woke up at walter reed. >> reporter: they each have a story. uniquely different, equally heart breaking. what connects them isn't what they have lost, but how they have somehow found resolve in the most unlikely of places. >> well, you know, you want to have a lifestyle of healing and health. you hear it all the time. you have to exercise and get moving. you have to get your weight down. you have to be active. what better thing to be active than to be on the water and do this. when i see a wheelchair, i see a paddler. >> reporter: in 2004 it was a vision but today team river runner is using places like the potomac river to heal veterans. >> we have 36 chapters in the country. we work with over 1,000 wounded warriors, disabled veterans a year. >> reporter: by using acaptive equipment and specialized instruction, the program ha

john's river in jacksonville, florida. when fire division chief randy napoli arrives just minutes later, he knows he has his work cut out for him. >> i could see that arm hanging straight down with the basket on the end. and i feared we could lose the entire arm with all three individuals on it. if the boom hit the water from over 100 feet, it would not have been a good situation. >> kim brooks is one of the people clinging to life in that basket. she's a department of transportation intern. earlier that morning she arrived, excited to inspect her first big bridge. >> the bridge had been recently constructed, so we were checking for stress cracks. when we had to go underneath the bridge and over the water, some anxiety. >> but kim is out with a group of veterans. a senior bridge inspector and two contractors who helped build the bridge. none of them anticipate any danger. suddenly the engine on the mechanical arm gives out. >> there was a loud squealing sound and the next second, the wildest bungee jump you've ever been on

the river is down 95%.landscape here in eastern oklahoma is different than, saw, the flat plains of western kansas. here the water of the arkansas river can be collected and managed in a series of five dams. in a normal year, there's enough to go around. but this is no normal year. >> the question is, do you want the water in your sink? do you want the water for your a.c.? do you want the water for the fish? >> reporter: brokering all those needs in eastern oklahoma is colonel michael teague. he manages the region's lakes and dams for the army corps of engineers. >> it is absolutely about balancing competing needs. >> reporter: this is quite a juggling act. >> it is. "juggling" is a good phrase. >> reporter: one of his biggest priorities is storing enough water in his lakes to release to the river when falling water levels threaten barge traffic carrying grain across the farm belt. but more water behind the dams means less water in the river to power the turbines generating electricity for eight million peo